255 Million Euros in Additional Aid for Syria

Germany will make the additional funds available at the third international donor conference being held Tuesday in Kuwait. In all Germany has made available nearly one billion euros in aid for the people affected by the conflict in Syria since 2012.

Flight 4U9525: German Government Reacts to Tragic News of Crash

Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her deep shock at the tragic news of the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525. The flight, bound for Düsseldorf from Barcelona, was carrying 144 passengers and 6 crewmembers when it went down in the southern France on Tuesday morning.

US Named Partner Country for Hannover Messe 2016

The US will be the partner country of the Hannover Messe in 2016. “Hannover Messe is of exceptional importance to the development of our transatlantic trade relations,” Ambassador Wittig said on the news.

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke with the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper about the plane crash in southern France. "The news of this disaster has left us all in a state of shock," he said.

On Wednesday, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel introduced the proposed budget plan for the coming years. More investments are expected in research and defense, but the debt will not increase.

"We need to secure stability in those areas that are already being freed from terrorists. Today is about ‘post-ISIL,’” Foreign Minister Steinmeier said on Wednesday at the first meeting of the working group.

Before the Women’s Suffrage movements began in Europe and the United States, Mathilde Franziska Anneke pioneered social equality on both continents as a writer, revolutionary and educator, who fought for equality and would later go on to influence the great women suffragists of the 19th century.

Team owners convened in Arizona this week for the NFL annual meeting, where the idea for international expansion. Germany is considered one of the “next frontiers” for the NFL, according to Vice President Mark Waller.

The German Bundestag invites you, in cooperation with the with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin to to apply for an International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) to spend five months in Berlin.